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Hindon water unfit even for bathing, says pollution board

Source: The Hindu, Date: December , 2014

Effluent discharged from sugar and paper mills, slaughter
houses, and chemical industries in Uttar Pradesh are deteriorating the water
quality in the Hindon, so much so that the water is not fit for bathing. The Central
Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Wednesday submitted an affidavit in the
National Green Tribunal showing that the water in the Hindon does not meet the
prescribed standard of primary water quality criteria for bathing. The
affidavit came to be submitted in a petition alleging that people from
Gangnolli, Daha, Sankrod, Brouda and Sarthi villages were suffering from cancer
due to discharge of highly toxic and harmful effluent in the Kali, Krishna and
Hindon rivers of Western Uttar Pradesh.